CVE-2017-18257

medium

Description

The __get_data_block function in fs/f2fs/data.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and loop) via crafted use of the open and fallocate system calls with an FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3696-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3696-1/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b86e33075ed1909d8002745b56ecf73b833db143

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b86e33075ed1909d8002745b56ecf73b833db143

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-04-04

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H